The British lady had never flown a plane before she enrolled for a flying course at the age of fifty. She and her husband bought a second-hand Dakota-and she took up extreme ventures.
Mrs. Wesher made a solitary flight round the world along the equator, 2001. Her current route crosses the north and south poles. She contacts the nearest mission control centre on the radio every hour, for precaution's sake. The daring pilot had two emergencies for now, with a narrow escape, as her engine jammed in the Arctic and over the Amazon.
The Arctic flight was her strongest impression, she says.
Apart from breaking a world record, Polly is fund-raising for a 180,000 pound scholarship in favour of a British-based school that trains limited-abilities pilots.
People involved, some way or other, in flight arrangements have made several dozen autographs on the wings of her bright orange Dakota.
#MUSLIM PREACHER'S DAUGHTER TO WED U.S. PRESIDENT'S DESCENDANT# CAIRO (RIA Novosti) - A Kuwaiti Muslim preacher's daughter is engaged to a US President's descendant, announced Tariq al-Suwaidan, Doctor of Divinity and the betrothed girl's father. Maisan and her lover made the engagement in El-Kuwait last month. The couple determined not to join in wedlock before he wins his doctorate in a year. President Herbert Hoover's offspring, the fiance is making research on al-Bukhari, renowned 9th century Arab theologian. An exemplary Muslim, the American speaks a fluent Arabic, and is an exquisite writer in that language, says his future father-in-law.
#JUPITER FOR HUGE CLIMATE CHANGE?#
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RIA Novosti) - A huge climatic change is sweeping Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, says Marcus Philip of the University of Berkeley, California. The temperature on either pole will get ten degrees centigrade down, and equatorial ten degrees up within the next decade, forecasts the researcher.
The climatic change will put an end to all surface currents, of which an approximate eighty are presently known. The principal-the Great Red Spot, discovered by Hooke in 1665, and larger than the entire Earth-will survive. The other currents will vanish to be replaced by others, which will share their fate in sixty years, expects Marcus Philip.
#PIONEER FUEL COMES FROM CAUCASUS#
MAKHACHKALA, DAGESTAN (RIA Novosti) - Firewood, coal, pressed dung and other fuels known for millennia will go into oblivion if the world accepts a sensational invention of Professor Moussa Abacharayev, DSc. He lives in Dagestan, Russia's North Caucasian autonomy, which borders on Chechnya.
A mixture of ores and metal oxides produces breathtaking heat in burning. Additions of aluminium, silicon and magnesium oxides make combustion long and controllable. A fifty gram brick produces as much heat as three kilograms of coal. Rich iron ores are not necessary to make the new fuel-iron-and-steel industrial waste suffices.
Combustion can be thriftily regulated, and a small tablet will heat a big Siberian house for hours, or last woodland hikers all through their night rest. The fabulous metal mixture is moisture-resistant and needs no oxygen to burn, and so works under water and in space alike.
The inventor has applied to patent the trailblazing fuel, and is determined to offer it to Dagestani industrial bosses as soon as that is done.
"Meanwhile, the USA and Canada alone have displayed an interest in my brainchild. Americans are offering me sixty thousand dollars or more merely to take part in further R&D," Professor Abacharayev said to Novosti.
